Pencil drawing showing two men, in a cinder-block cell, seated on the floor and with a ball and chain around one of each of their wrists. The man in the left, wears a mustache, and sits with his left knee bent and his right leg outstretched. He leans on his right hand to which the ball and chain are attached to that wrist. He wears a jacket, vest, cravat, pants, and shoes. The man in the right has very wavy hair, sits with his knees bent and his arms wrapped around them. His ball and chain is attached to his left wrist. He wears a flouncy-sleeved shirt, vest, breeches, and boots. In the left of the cell is a window with bars. A man, attired in a hat and coat, points and shouts through the bars., Title inscribed in ink below drawing., Date from manuscript note below image: received Septem 3/63., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z - Preston [P.2017.8.25]
Full-length portrait of William Penn in a prison cell at the Tower of London. Penn sits with his legs crossed on a bench covered in straw and holds a paper reading, No Cross, No Crown. In the left is a wooden table. The stone cell has two small windows. Penn was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1668 where he wrote, No Cross, No Crown, which was later published in 1669., Title from manuscript note written under the image., Date inferred from the style of drawing., Ambiguous manuscript note written under the image: Original contemporary drawing. Very rare., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.8]
